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- Day the Music Died (according to Don McLean)
- Four Chaplains Memorial Day
- Magnolia and Fish Jubilee (Fairy)
- National Carrot Cake Day
- Wedding Ring Day
- Winterlude
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Christian holidays
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anniversaries
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- birthday of income tax - US Congress ratifies the 16th amendment, granting the authority to levy taxes on income (1913); no celebrations noted
- Mozambique - Heroes' Day
- The Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society petitioned the U.S. Congress to end slavery, 1790 - United States
- St. Blas - Paraguay
- First President of the World Court, B.C.J. Loder of the Netherlands, elected, The Hague 1922
- Setsubun - Japan - During this national holiday, also known as the Japanese Bean-Throwing Festival,
people meet on temple grounds and throw beans while chanting, “Fortune in, evils out!”
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directories
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February holidays & events by location
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- Martyr's Day - in Sao Tome
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- Setsubun (Bean-Throwing Festival) - in Japan; the last day of winter according to the lunar calendar
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- Cordova Ice Worm Festival - in Cordova,
Alaska; a weeklong winter carnival in the first full week of February; features a parade led by a 100-foot ice worm and the election of an ice worm king and queen
- Annual NJOP Dinner - National Jewish Outreach Program
- Winterlude - in Ottawa - Gatineau; February 3 - 19, 2006; the continent's
largest winter festival, including a 4-mile-long skating "rink" on the Rideau Canal
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- Day 34, with 331 days remaining in the year
- 2001 A. D.: Saturday
- 2002 A. D.: Sunday
- 2003 A. D.: Monday
- 2004 A. D.: Wednesday
- 2005 A. D.: Thursday
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- 2006 A. D.: Friday
- 2007 A. D.: Saturday
- 2008 A. D.: Monday
- 2009 A. D.: Tuesday
- 2010 A. D.: Wednesday
- 2011 A. D.: Thursday
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other calendars
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season
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- Northern hemisphere: Winter - the official halfway point
- Southern hemisphere: Summer
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zodiac
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